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July 27 - August 3
The Fabric of Life!
This year's will be the 80th Annual Warren County Farmers' Fair, celebrating twenty years of the Traditional Arts Expo and featuring the seventeenth annual Hot Air Balloon Festival.
The fair features livestock and small animal shows, agricultural exhibits, tractor pulls, demolition derbies, mud bogging, crafters, carnival rides, and plenty of food.
Mass hot air balloon launches every evening, tethered rides and balloon races and contests make the event two for the price of one!
This year's Traditional Arts Expo is jam-packed with exhibits from Lost Art Lacers of NJ, the Warren Needle Arts Guild, handweavers, and quilts from the United Quilt Show, Evening Star Quilter's Guild and the Hunterdon County Quilting Guilds.
Mass launches each evening include up to forty hot air balloons.
The Fair opens on Saturday, July 29, and runs through next Saturday, August 5. No matter what your age, you're bound to find something to love, and a visit to the fair may even make you feel like a kid again; especially when you pay only $7 to get in ($4 ages 5-12, and specials all week).
The fairgrounds are located at the intersection of Rt. 519 and Strykers Road in Harmony Township.
(GPS: 1350 Strykers Road, Phillipsburg, NJ 00886) For information, please call 908/859-6563 or visit their
website.
Heart Throbs
Canal path from Milford to Stockton in Hunterdon County
Strap on a helmet, pump up the tires and take a bike ride. Go it on your own, bring the family or join a club, but start pedaling folks, because there's no better way to work out the cardiovascular while observing the sights and sounds of Northwest New Jersey along a variety of specific trails and open road routes. Here are some suggestions from several bike enthusiasts, among the more passionate hobbiests on earth, about how to enjoy your wheels. First, a general guide
to riding in our area, then a closer look at some biking routes in
Hunterdon County,
Sussex County
-- even some mountain bike trails in
Allamuchy.
You can really pump it up at Tour de Blairstown on August 5. Support sustainable farming as you ride one of three designated routes through New Jersey's prettiest countryside.
On the Banks of the Wild Six
When the Jersey sky hangs white in summer haze, head to the woods at Six Mile Run in Franklin Township, Somerset County. The 3,037-acre property takes off from the Millstone River and winds its way through forest, meadow and suburb, with its own renegade offshoot creating the pond in Hidden Lake Park, before ending unceremoniously in a North Brunswick industrial park. But in the park that bears its name, a myriad of trails and habitats alongside this quiet stream are made for easy—long or short—relaxing walks.
Nowhere Fast
Have you ever followed a highway sign and gotten nowhere? Follow some directional markers off Northwest New Jersey country roads and that's just what you'll get. Unless of course you slow down long enough to
take a closer look.
A few older homes clustered together, a crumbling foundation, cemetery stones worn with time: these places tell stories worth knowing. Huntsville, in Sussex County, is such a place. There is no post office, general store, fire station, or church. Yet upon closer inspection, those old buildings hold clues to the town which once thrived. Step back in time, a mere fifty years, and the town of Huntsville exists again.
Skylands Prime!
A Bedminster destination for 31 years (formerly Lamington General Store) located in a restored 1890's general store, Lamington Lifestyles offers two floors brimming with home decor, unique gifts, women's apparel, baby gifts, jewelry and artwork... some designed by over 80 American artisans. The store specialty is custom farm tables. Is there a better place to spice up a lazy summer afternoon? 285 Lamington Rd., Bedminster, 908/ 439-2034.
The beat goes on...
Rich and varied, music in Northwest New Jersey is just the ticket for evenings that end on high notes. Your musical destination is never very far away and often the price can't be beat. Keep an eye on the list!
On Saturday evening (July 29, 8pm) the British Invasion comes to Centenary Stage Company's Summer Jamfest in Hackettstown. The sixties era retrospective includes classic songs by iconic sixties British Groups, the American musical "response", with an extraordinary note-for-note finale. 908/979-0900.
Also on Saturday, The Nancy and Spencer Reed Quartet bring four decades of jazz collaboration to Ramsaysburg Concerts in the Barn. Enjoy an evening full of inventive jazz vocals and instrumentals, with indoor, outdoor and cabaret seating available. 6pm. Route 46 at Ramseyburg Road in Knowlton Township. 908/475-5352.
Sunday's (July 30) Blues Fest
brings Bob Lanza Blues Band and the Tyrone Stackhouse Group to the Somerset Concert Series at Duke Island Park. The music, from 5:30 - 8:30pm, is free. Old York Road in Bridgewater.
908/722-1200.
And the Lost Ramblers bring some good old Bluegrass to Sunday's Shippen Manor Lawn Concert in Oxford.
Forward Thinking!
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While you wait for the mailman, tap our calendar for the best events for you and your family, or check our current stories. Stay tuned to our Day Trip Map for good ideas for a scenic drive! For the more aerobically inclined, the
Outdoor Map
shows the way to go, or
choose among dozens of natural attractions or outdoor activities suggested on our website. Northwest New Jersey and destinations just beyond those borders, in Pennsylvania and New York, offer brilliant ways to get out and enjoy the pleasures of the season.
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